About Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus (from greek "honey-sweet flow") or simply refered as to diabetes, is the term for a group of metabolic diseases and describes their original main symptom of sugar excretion in the urine.

But why actual "sugar"?

Each cell in the body needs energy. In the form of sugar, energy is transported in the blood to the cells.

This includes not only the existing sugar in the diet that is directly transferred into the blood. Much more it means, that it can be absorbed in the digestive process which converts carbohydrates into sugar and then only can be used by the body. So the body can function, the sugar level in blood at a certain level must be kept fairly constant.

This function is regulated by insulin that is produced in the pancreas. Metaphorically speaking: the better the insulin production, the better the dissolved sugar in the blood is absorbed by the body cells.

For diabetics, this regulatory mechanism is disturbed.

The body's own insulin production is insufficient to make the cells receptive. The sugar is not sufficiently detached and processed from the transport medium blood. Since the admission procedure of sugar and carbohydrates is not stopped, however, increases the blood sugar levels.The blood loses its viscosity and is too thick so it can only be pumped through the vessels with greater effort.